86 DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



One package barley chop. 



One i)ackage gram, ^vheat meal. 



One i)aukage oat flour. 



Ouo package cracked wheat. 



One jjackage gram, yellow coru meal. 



One package barley meal. 



One i)ackage rye flour. 



One package barley flour. 



One package white corn fiour. 



One package rye shorts. 



One package bolted yellow coru meal. 



One package rolled wheat. 



One package oat bran. 



One package oat dust. 



One package oat shorts. 



One package Avena A. & B. oatmeal. 



One package hulled oats. 



One package pearl wheat. 



One package rolled wheat. 



One package wheat. 



One package barley. 



One package pearl barley. 



One package cracked barley. 



One package farina. 



One package hominy. 



One package yellow cracked corn. 



One package gram. 



One package corn meal. 



One package white corn farina. 



One package samp. 

 Hon. T. T. Lyon, South Haven, Mich. : 



One cocoauut in shuck. 



Fossil wood from Arizona. 

 Frank Wdls, Lansing, 3Ii h. : 



Three reed fish poles, Arundinaria tecta. 

 'I Itoaiax Foster, Lansing, Mich. : 



One beech natural graft. 

 J//.V.S- Mag Chapmccn, Bangor, Mich. : 



One orchis. 



MISCELLAKEOUS WORK. 



The nnmber and variety of questions asked is on the increase, requiring a 

 good deal of time for replies. 



After serving as secretary of the American Pomological Society for four 

 years and edithig two reports, I positively declined to serve for a third term. 

 The last meeting was held at Grand Kapids. It was well attended and consid- 

 ered by many good judges to be the best meeting of the kind ever held in 

 America. 



Several invitations to lecture, including some from other States, were 

 declined. I attended the usual number of farmers' institutes. 



In accordance Avith a new act of the Legislature, I prepared one bulletin 

 which was, " Testing the Vitality of Seeds buried in the Soil." This was 



